What is 'Mein Kampf'? What was the significance of communism worldwide? What is the NKVD? What was the USSR? What was the purpose of the Communist International Organization? What are the differences between Trotskyism and Stalinism? What were the communist countries in 1960? What did the Bo...
an economic model created by such a committed Marxist (John Maynard Keynes) he once described Marxism as "worse than nothing," and an entirely private sector-based health care system that's basically a watered-down version of the system used in that bastion of Trotskyism know as...
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed -- a class of laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital. These laborers...
“What Libertarianism Is,” in Jörg Guido Hülsmann & Stephan Kinsella, eds., Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2009) (PDF); adapted as “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009), and also as “What ...
The Kronstadt rebellion took place in the first weeks of March 1921. Proclaimed by Trotsky himself as being the "pride and glory of the Russian Revolution," its sailors were renowned for their revolutionary ideas and activities and had turned the naval base and city into a de facto soviet rep...
«The idea that all human beings are interchangable [...] IS NONSENSE». I agree. Marx is in agreement, Engels as well, Lenin and Stalin, Trotsky too. Communists do not beleive that all men are equally interchangable. Nor that there is no different people whatsoever. In ...
For some of these parties, the differences between Trotskyism and Stalinism is pretty narrow. The closer to orthodox Trotskyism you get, the more Stalinist it appears. As Victor Serge noted of Trotsky’s "Fourth International" in the 1930s, "in the hearts of the persecuted I encountered ...
Simon keeps up an air of highbrow joviality. He wants to talk about the insanity of allowing bankers to short. He says it’s likeCatch-22’s Milo bombing his own base because the Germans were paying better. Oh, also, he’s rereading1984and the screaming pseudo Trotskyites remind of him...